[HN Gopher] I Solve Problems (talk at EuroBSDCon 2024)
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       I Solve Problems (talk at EuroBSDCon 2024)
        
       Author : msangi
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2024-10-03 16:45 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | froh wrote:
       | the title of the talk is "Why (and how) we're migrating many of
       | our servers from Linux to the BSDs"
       | 
       | and that should be the title of this post too.
       | 
       | I like that the blog post shares the slides, not just the video.
        
       | Borg3 wrote:
       | I wish he could write up a bit about XFS failure he had. Im using
       | it from many many years and there is no issues at all.
        
         | blipvert wrote:
         | Used it since the late 90s on IRIX, think there were a few
         | issues early on with the endian swap, but no issues for the
         | best part of twenty years for me!
        
         | hggigg wrote:
         | I had one a few years back where we ran out of inodes on a
         | Jenkins machine on CentOS 7 and it crashed and couldn't remount
         | the filesystem. I had to restore a backup which was time
         | consuming on a 4TB volume with crazy amounts of files.
        
       | vfclists wrote:
       | > "If nothing is working, what am I paying you for? If
       | everything's working, what am I paying you for?"
       | 
       | Bloke is not acquainted with Keynesian economics.
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OhIdDNtSv0
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO_tTnpof_o
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       | All a man needs is food in his stomach and a place to rest at the
       | end of the day. Everything else is vanity
       | 
       | What proportion of global GDP is dedicated to fulfilling our
       | basic material needs?
       | 
       | It is mostly unnecessary. Inspite of the huge productivity gains
       | made since the seventies, the current generation of young
       | Americans are poorer than their parents and grandparents were at
       | their age.
       | 
       | So what does all the IT optimization bring? Just more wealth for
       | the owners and redundancies for their employees, including Joe
       | Bloggs here.
       | 
       | It is time people in IT got to understand this. In the long term
       | their activities are not going to improve their wealth. They are
       | one of the few professions whose job is to optimize themselves
       | out of a living, unless they own the means of the production
       | their are optimizing, which they don't.
       | 
       | It is their employers that do.
        
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